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The business and method of mysticism is love.
Evelyn Underhill
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Evelyn Underhill
Age: 65 †
Born: 1875
Born: December 6
Died: 1941
Died: June 15
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God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
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Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.
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We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.
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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
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If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
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Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
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For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
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Christian history looks glorious in retrospect but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.
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I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!
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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
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A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.
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The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.
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It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not This do! but This happened!
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